Originally Posted by
corporate-wage-slave
Customer guidance update
Upthread there are some posts on rebooking policies for BA ticket holders with travel to or from Tel Aviv (TLV). In essence they are
- Refunds in certain scenarios
- Rebooking to future dates
- Rebooking on LHR and LTN (Luton) services with El Al
- Rebooking on other El Al services via other European cities.
- (informally) taking you off a booked flight and holding the reservation until more information is available.
There is a new set of options now available involving the Israeli airline Arkia, IZ. This airline doesn't service London, but does serve Athens, Larnaca and Barcelona, locations where BA have many flights. So you can now build a BA + IZ schedule. For example if you have LHR-TLV, this can now become LHR-BCN-TLV. Catch: it's for economy only since IZ is a one class airline, but you can agree to downgrade to economy. This is for 125 plated BA tickets where at least one TLV sector is before 1 November, but I imagine it will get extended. If your Hebrew is a little rusty you best use sites like ITA / Google Flight so see availability, their own website appears to be Hebrew only.
Quick question in relation to the likely extension.......I appreciate that once the second stage of Operation Swords of Iron begins BA will make a more long term decision, but is it likely as far as next week is concerned an announcement will be pretty imminent? What does the experience of past conduct by BA suggest as to when they will update their policy? I ask because I am likely to travel next week and I effectively have to choose between LY from LHR or BA to LCA then one of the Heinz 57 variety of carriers from there to TLV.